🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Blue-naped Mousebird live?

Urocolius macrourus has 35,102 records in 24 countries and territories, from 1859 to 2026. Most records come from Kenya.

AnimaliaChordataAvesColiiformesColiidaeUrocolius

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Kenya 15,799
Uganda 6,457
Tanzania 5,875
Senegal 2,762
Ethiopia 1,653
Rwanda 738
Mauritania 341
Algeria 337
Nigeria 276
Sudan 181
Somalia 143
Chad 129
DR Congo 122
Cameroon 87
Djibouti 56
Niger 54
South Sudan 50
Eritrea 18
Mali 14
Greece 4
Central African Republic 2
Gambia 2
Burkina Faso 1
Malawi 1

Related animals

Others in the family Coliidae.

Speckled Mousebird
Speckled Mousebird
418,093 records
Red-faced Mousebird
Red-faced Mousebird
239,518 records
White-backed Mousebird
White-backed Mousebird
86,488 records
Red-backed Mousebird
749 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.